new:Listen
to a rare, very early Casey Kasem recording on KRLA,
Pasadena, CA from May 27, 1965(MP3-file, 192 kBit/s mono - 87,080 KB / 1 h 2
min) with commercials - most of them done by Casey himself !

free download:

Listen
to the very first words of the very first AT40-show from July 4, 1970(MP3-file, 128 kBit/s - 674 KB / 43 s)!

“Here
we go with the Top 40 hits of the nation this week on American Top 40, the
best-selling and most-played songs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from
Canada to Mexico. This is Casey Kasem in Hollywood, and in the next three hours
we'll count down the 40 most popular hits in the United States this week, hot
off the record charts of Billboard magazine for the week ending July 11th,
1970. In this hour at number 32 in the countdown, a song that's been a hit four
different times in 19 years! And we're just one tune away from the singer with
the 10,000 Dollar gold hubcaps on his car! Now, on with the countdown!”

(rem.:
The airing was one week before the official date! One station even aired it on
July 3.)

free download:

Listen
to the whole show from July 4, 1970
(MP3-file, 128 kBit/s - 134,849 KB / 2 h 24 min) without commercials
(original time with commercials was about 3 hours)!

free downloads: Casey
Kasem and me (when I still called myself
“Levi Bolotin”)

# Letter
from Westwood One Entertainment to me, datedMay 29,
1997, pre-announcing that my Request and Dedication for “Casey’s Top
40” will be broadcast on June 7, 1997(MP3-file,
192 kBit/s - 8,878 KB / 6 min). This R&D was in memory of my late friend
Peter Sager who fell from the Matterhorn.

Comment:
The “Long Distance Dedication” is from a listener who thanks Casey for counting
down the hits for 39 years. Between #2 (with the ironic title “If Today Was
Your Last Day”) and #1 Casey himself gives a brief history of his countdown
programs and how they grew over the years. And after the #1 (which, by the way,
is ironically titled “[Sometimes Goodbye Is A] Second Chance”) he states this
wisdom: “I'd like to share with you something I've learned over the years:
Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work
with, and the people you work for. I've been lucky; I've worked for and with
the very best!” Casey ends the show with - of course - his legendary
tagline “Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars!”.

General:
Most shows were recorded from re-runs on a radio station livestream. Some
"Extras" were added recently (done by a different
host). Recording was done with "No23
Recorder". Commercials were manually cut out using "Audacity". All playlists were created by
myself and contain new entries, re-entries, "Extras",
"Specials", "Archives", "Oldies",
"Recaps" (top 3 songs of last week) and "Long
Distance Dedications".

free download:

The
Sad, Strange Battle Over Casey Kasem

article
written by Hal Espen, taken from Billboard magazine (print version) from
February 22, 2014
(PDF-file - 12,050 KB, 6 large pages)

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unfortunately, there will be no more updates!

Everything
on display is for free. Nevertheless any voluntary donation would be warmly welcome
because of the enormous amount of work (and money) that my service implies:
doing the recording (or buying the shows), cutting out the commercials and
writing the playlists (including data research). My recommendation is 2.00 €
per show (which I consider a discount price).